{"id":2276,"date":"2019-01-28T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:01:12","slug":"bringbackourtaadigirls-missing-girls-are-alive-gender-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/28\/bringbackourtaadigirls-missing-girls-are-alive-gender-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"#BringBackOurTaadiGirls: missing girls are alive – Gender Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A happy ending may be\u00a0beckoning in the sad tale of the three missing girls reported kidnapped in Takoradi, the Western Regional capital, in what has been called the Taadi Kidnappings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gender and Social Protection minister, Cynthia Morrison has\u00a0revealed to the press, the kidnapped girls are still alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Taadi<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Her\n comments come hours after the Director-General of the Criminal \nInvestigation Department (CID), Deputy Commissioner of Police, Maame \nTiwaa Addo-Danquah, disclosed, there is an imminent collaboration \nbetween Ghanaian investigators and their counterparts from the United \nStates of America and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n minister said this during her visit to the home of Priscilla Mantsebea \nKoranchie, the fifteen-year-old student of Sekondi College who was \nkidnapped on the December 21 last year at Nkroful junction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding\n to concerns whether or not the girls are alive, the minister said “it \ncould be but we haven\u2019t gotten there because according to them [Police] \nhe [the suspect] said they are still alive. So let us take it from \nthere. We should not speculate. We should hold on to what he said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n minister, who appears relieved that the suspect is now talking, added \n\u201cI am happy the culprit has started talking; that is what I wanted \nbecause I did not believe he will not talk. He has to talk and he is \ntalking. From here I am going to see him. And then talk to him and see \nwhere we can get to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According\n to Joy News\u2019 Western Region correspondent Ina-Thalia Quansah, the \nminister said the assurance of the girls being alive was given to her by\n the Director General of the CID. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\n revelation will put to rest fears by the general public and that of \nsome family members of the victims that the girls may be already dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n minister had gone to the family of the kidnapped girls Sunday morning \nto comfort and assure them of governments\u2019 commitment to doing \neverything within its power to rescue the missing young ladies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read myjoyonline.com report on the story so far here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#BringBackOurTaadiGirls: The Takoradi kidnappings – The story so far<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

credit: myjoyonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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